Pickling is an excellent way to render edible a vegetable like okra that can be a little gummy on its own. In the Piquantly Pickled Okra, the mucilaginousness of the okra is balanced by the piquancy. I could easily see eating this as a side with cheese or hardboiled eggs…but that actually wasn’t my immediate dining plan for the jar of okra that I bought from Elegant Vegan at the Oak Park Farmers’ Market.